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M/V Tacoma

Features / ADA Information

Car Deck ADA Shelter:No

Main Cabin Restroom:Yes

Car Deck ADA Restroom:No

Elevator:Yes

WiFi Access:Yes

ADA Notes:The MV Tacoma has elevator access from both auto deck levels to all of the passenger cabin areas. Accessible restrooms, vending and newspaper machines and a galley are on the main passenger deck. Accessible restrooms are also available on the sun deck. If you are traveling by car and want to park near the elevator, be sure to let the ticket seller know. This vessel is equipped with our visual paging system.

Vessel Information

Class:Jumbo Mark II

Type:Auto/Passenger Ferry

Length:460' 2"

Engines:4

Beam:90'

Horsepower:16,000

Draft:17' 3"

Speed in Knots:18

Max Passengers:2499

Propulsion:DIESEL-ELECTRIC (AC)

Max Vehicles:202

Displacement (weight in long tons):6184

Tall Deck Space:60

City Built:Seattle, WA

Auto Deck Clearance:15' 6"

Year Built / Re-built:1997

Meaning of Tacoma:From the native word Tah-ho-mah (now Mt. Rainier), meaning "snowy mountain." Tacoma was first attributed to the mountain in an 1860s book, "The Canoe and the Saddle" by Theodore Winthrop, a popular volume on the early Pacific Northwest. The city picked the name over Commencement City when the railroad made its terminius there in the 1870s.